The Golden Goblet

1. Locate the city of Thebes on a map of Egypt.

Map of Thebes

Thebes - The City {READ the short paragraph about Thebes - The City.}

>Describe the landscape with specific details. What body of water is particularly important to Thebes? Why is this body of water so vital to Egypt?


2. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. The title of this book is an example of alliteration - The Golden Goblet. Find one example of alliteration for each of the following categories: a person's name, a phrase, a brand name, a line of poetry.

Alliteration Examples

Alliteration in poetry

3. The following Egyptian gods are mentioned in this book: Osiris, Ptah, Ra, Amon, Thoth, Set, Horus. Use the hyperlinks to find information about these Egyptian gods. Create a tree map to organize the information.

Egyptian gods and goddesses

Egyptian gods

Ancient Egyptian gods

Meet the Egyptian gods (Rick Riordan)

Egyptian gods - hieroglyphs

4. Create a double bubble map to compare and contrast any two of the Egyptian gods.

5. Use the hieroglyph converter to write your name. Draw these symbols on your paper.

Hieroglyph Converter

6. Other information about Ancient Egypt:

Egyptian Pyramids

Egyptian E-cards

7. Set up your EDMODO account.
---Go to "Create STUDENT account".
---ENTER Group Code

Block 1:ue4391
Block 2: 858z5k
Block 3: ufm8cg
---For your user name, write your LastNameFirstName. For example: JonesJohn
---See Mr. Branch for your password. Your password will be the same as your PCS network password.


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Vocabulary Pretest: Ch. 1-2

Audio for Chapter 2 of The Golden Goblet. You need the iTunes software. (Click here for iTunes Software.)
Ch 2.1
Ch. 2.2
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Ch. 2.4
Ch 2.5
Ch 3.1
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Ch. 4